Ann Voskamp - One Thousand Gifts (2011)

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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? "To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.

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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.

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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.

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How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in.

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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.

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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

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When I fully enter time's swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.

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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.

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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.

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It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us...

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Life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.

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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.

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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.

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